Quotes About Ideas

I wish feminism wasn't so scary to people. It should be an evolving concept. I think it's an umbrella term to embrace conflicting ideas.

You can say that your ideas are bad for America, and frankly un-American, but don't say the person is a traitor.

Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express.

The problem with most of the want-to-be authors is that they are unable to focus. Either they have no idea of where to begin, or they have hundreds of ideas and don't know which one to pick. Both scenarios leading to one result... they give up even before they start.

President Obama has been attacking relentlessly. In 2008 he said that if you're out of fresh ideas you use stale tactics against your opponent - you try and make your opponent unacceptable and that's what he is trying to do.

This epidemic of student demands for 'safe places' to protect against threatening words and ideas would make a great science fiction film, but unbelievably, events seem to be outpacing the political imagination.

The world I want to live in is a world where everybody is a bit more uncertain about their arguments and is a bit more open to other people's arguments. I think that we can engage ideas without ad hominem attacks.

To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad chaos in the radical movement, a sort of intellectual hash, which has neither taste nor character.

Not only are we here to protect the public from vicious criminals in the street but also to protect the public from harmful ideas.

You know, exams are like war -- the birth rate of ideas goes up. Anything to keep from this dismal regimen, says poor mind, and hopefully tosses up another distraction.

But we have a war of ideals and ideas, and that is to sell democracy.

You can only win the 'war' with ideas, not with spending cuts

Democracy necessarily means a conflict of will and ideas, involving sometimes a war of the knife between different ideas.

Weapons and technology may help win wars, but it is only ideas that have the power to truly change the world.

Many people have ideas on how others should change; few people have ideas on how they should change.

Good ideas come from everywhere. It's more important to recognize a good idea than to author it.

We are apt to think that our ideas are the creation of our own wisdom but the truth is that they are the result of the experience through outside contact.

All new ideas begin in a non-conforming mind that questions some tenet of the conventional wisdom.

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have.

Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.

Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge.

We need modern ideas, but we also need ancient wisdom. If we deny ancient wisdom we are making a big mistake.

The store of wisdom does not consist of hard coins which keep their shape as they pass from hand to hand; it consists of ideas and doctrines whose meanings change with the minds that entertain them.

If you get into the mental habit of relating what you're reading to the basic structure of the underlying ideas being demonstrated, you gradually accumulate some wisdom.